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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught my kids the sounds letters make starting when they were one or two.  It was as basic as teaching them that's a picture of a dog, that's an A, A says ahhh.  By the time they got to Kindergarten they could read simple books. Learning how letters and words (and numbers) work was just part of what we talked about everyday.  They are not geniuses, probably about IQ 120 or so.  I'm not sure why everybody doesn't do this.  Even if your child struggles with dyslexia or some other learning difficulty at least you would know that early and could provide extra help.[/quote]

Some people have multiple small children and jobs and parents who need help, etc etc. [/quote]

My life is equally busy and I have two children but it didn't keep me from interacting with them about letters, words, numbers, and reading to and with them everyday.  Not acceptable to neglect your child's education yourself and then blame the public schools when they struggle.[/quote]
Ok, great. But the reality is that many parents don't. So what is your solution? We cannot legislate parenting, but we CAN legislate that curriculums used in schools are evidence-based and aligned to science and doing, y'know, their basic function of educating students. If they're not then what is their purpose?[/quote]

My point is all reading starts with phonics, learning the sounds of the letters and how they combine to form words.  That info should be given to kids very early, if not by parents in the home then at least at preschool.  Kids that get this early are able to learn to read in K with almost any reading curriculum.  If they don't get it early they should get it in K.  Probably Lucy Calkins program works with kids who already had this background and not so well with kids who didn't.[/quote]

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